From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Nov 19 08:23:27 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BD55C4AC1B for ; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net (ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.143]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E5DA1A07; Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:23:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from FreeBSD@shaneware.biz) Received: from ppp121-45-17-13.bras1.adl2.internode.on.net (HELO leader.local) ([121.45.17.13]) by ipmail05.adl6.internode.on.net with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2016 18:48:17 +1030 Subject: Re: Microsoft announced it is joining The Linux Foundation? To: Matthew Seaman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20161118113224.20964d7d.freebsd@edvax.de> <747a871c-4d34-7c06-0c04-4650f31bb6ce@FreeBSD.org> <20161119000911.GA21050@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> From: Shane Ambler Message-ID: <45433e53-38c3-776a-a3d6-7594974dc4c9@ShaneWare.Biz> Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 18:48:14 +1030 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161119000911.GA21050@lime.woodcruft.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2016 08:23:27 -0000 On 19/11/2016 10:39, Frank Shute wrote: > The guy who built WhatsApp bunged the FreeBSD Foundation a million bucks when > he cashed out, by way of thanks. > > Perhaps you could remind me of how much money Microsoft have given us? MS is OpenBSD's first gold sponsor - by donating an undisclosed sum that was between 25,000 and 50,000 - which was "in recognition of it's role in supporting the OpenSSH project" - this appears to be payback for them adding ssh to their windows powershell. For FreeBSD, MS builds and supports a distribution of FreeBSD and contributes some code. I guess the BSD community isn't worth the big fanfare to promote them making a donation. More to the point is that BSD was probably a quiet test bed to see what reaction they would get by starting to contribute to projects in the OSS community. -- FreeBSD - the place to B...Software Developing Shane Ambler